• May 15, 2000 |

    News in Brief

    News in BriefCourt System Hopes to Get Cases on TrackMedia - The Delaware County Common Pleas Court is instituting changes in its method of moving cases through the system, so that co

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  • March 26, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Judge Rules No Right to Privacy for Business Entities, Unsealing Record

    A Washington County judge, holding there is no constitutional right to privacy for business entities, has unsealed the record in a case in which three drillers settled a suit brought by a cou

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  • November 24, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Van Antwerpen Tapped for 3rd Circuit Seat

    U.S. District Judge Franklin S. Van Antwerpen was nominated Friday to fill the last remaining vacancy on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals - apparently the result of a lobbying efforts by U.S.

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  • October 6, 2008 |

    Resolving High-Conflict Custody Cases

    Judges, lawyers and psychologists struggle to deal with a small subset of custody cases that involve a high level of ongoing conflict between the parents. Even after an initial custody ord

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  • August 6, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Forty Under Forty

    Each time we select 40 lawyers under age 40 we think have distinguished themselves, the faces look younger. It's an illusion, of course, the result of hyperopia brought about by the advancing years

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  • September 21, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

    The $75,000 Question

    If the individual members of a proposed class action voluntarily limit the damages they seek in court to less than $75,000 -- the threshold amount required for federal diversity jurisdiction -

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  • September 20, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

    The $75,000 Question

    If the individual members of a proposed class action voluntarily limit the damages they seek in court to less than $75,000 - the threshold amount required for federal diversity jurisdiction -

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  • December 22, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Courts for veterans spreading across U.S.

    State criminal courts devoted to U.S. war veterans are emerging across the country, from New York to Oklahoma to California, as increasing numbers of soldiers returning from the wars in I

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  • June 11, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

    HONORED Ballard Spahr has announced the 2010 recipients of the firm's Pro Bono Awards for firm lawyers and other professionals who contribute significant pro bono legal se

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  • December 28, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Superior Court Headliners Revolved Around Constitution

    In a year in which many eyes were focused on Pennsylvania trial courts, where proceedings in the Penn State sex-abuse scandal and a prosecution against a high official of the Catholic Archdio

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